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Biography of Sister Vera Lillian Dunn, employed at Sunshine Harvester Works between 1936 and 1947.
Vera Lillian Dunn (nee Bult) was born in Ballarat in 1897. Her parents were George and Margaret Bult. George worked as a lathe turner and then superintendent of the Sunshine Harvester Works factory.
Vera followed in her father's footsteps and gained employment at the Sunshine Harvester Works as a factory nurse in July 1936. She was previously employed for five years at the Shire of Lilydale & Ferntree Gully's Baby Health Centre. Vera left the Sunshine Harvester Works in December 1947. She passed away in Melbourne in 1985, aged 88.
Vera was one of many members of the Bult family to be employed by the Sunshine Harvester Works. The family had the longest association with the company which began with George and his brother John who started working for the firm in the 1890s when it was based in Ballarat. Four generations of the family accumulated over 500 years of service to the firm. D.B Ferguson, an executive at Sunshine Harvester Works, jokingly likened the family to cockroaches, 'every time you turn something over you find one!' (Sunshine Review, September 1952, p.10). The family's long-standing connection with the Sunshine Harvester Works ended in the 1960s when members of the later generation of Bults left the company.
- References:
- 1. Sister Vera Lillian Dunn's Employee's Engagement Form, University of Melbourne Archives, Box 5, DESI-FAZZ.
- 2. '447 Not Out!', Sunshine Review, 1946, vol.3, no.6, p.4.
- 3. 'It's a Family Affair', Sunshine Review, 1952, no.17, p.10-11.
- 4. Victoria, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. Digger - Death Index. Victoria 1921-1985.
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